Janice Chen, Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Mammoth Biosciences Janice Chen is a recent PhD graduate in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Mammoth Biosciences, a biotechnology company harnessing a revolutionary gene-editing tool called CRISPR - used [...]
Jeff Huber, Founding Chief Executive Officer, GRAIL Jeff Huber is the Founding Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of GRAIL. Prior to GRAIL, Jeff worked at the intersection of life sciences and computer science at Google[x]. Previously at Google, Jeff led development for Google Ads, Google [...]
Charlie Silver, CEO and co-founder of Mission Bio Charlie is CEO and co-founder of Mission Bio where he leads a team dedicated to solving complex biological problems with precision engineering, innovative biochemistry, and supported bioinformatics. Charlie has dedicated his career to commercializing next-generation hardware technology and scientific instrumentation at emerging ventures [...]
Ursheet Parikh, Partner at Mayfield Ursheet Parikh leads the digital health and genomics investing practice at Mayfield. He partners with entrepreneurs that build delightful, deeptech products for all aspects of the healthcare ecosystem. Mayfield’s current investments in health and wellness include Classpass, Healthtap, Mammoth Biosciences, Mission Bio, Nebula Genomics, Qventus, Tonal and Zipongo. [...]
Benjamin Steil, Senior Product Development Scientist at Arbor Biosciences I am heavily involved in novel product development for both synthetic biology and NGS applications. My background encompasses molecular biology, cell-free systems, virology and immunology.
Stephanie Marrus, Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Stephanie Marrus is Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the leading graduate life science/healthcare academic institution in the US. Her mission is to start companies from UCSF inventions and [...]
Julie Shapiro, Senior Policy Director at Keystone Policy Center. Julie has 16 years of experience in the natural resource field as a facilitator, mediator, and educator. As a Senior Policy Director at Keystone Policy Center, Julie directs Keystone’s natural resources program and its emerging technologies program. Julie creates, facilitates, and sustains [...]
Charles Dimmler, Co-founder and CEO of Checkerspot Charles Dimmler is the co-founder and CEO of Checkerspot. His career has focused on building and leading teams at emerging growth companies in the life sciences and biotechnology sector. He has deep expertise in general management and leading strategic transactions, with over $1 billion [...]
Jared Bailey, Applications Scientist at Labcyte. Jared’s focus is on synthetic biology and DNA construction. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Otterbein University and his Master’s degree from the University of Kentucky. He previously has worked at Allylix and Intrexon on the biosynthetic production of terpenes and isobutanol. [...]
Sachin Kelkar, VP, Finance at Geltor Sachin has operated at the intersection of finance, life science and technology for the majority of his career. He was drawn to Geltor’s mission to create and produce at scale sustainable “hero” ingredients for the world’s biggest businesses with the goal of having Geltor-powered products [...]
